Some day’s life can be great, and other days well….it can suck! And when I mean suck, I mean suck! A lot of time it is for more particular reason, it may just be that the asshole that is driving in front of you may decide that he or she doesn’t want to pay attention to what it is that they are doing, and guess what….Suddenly your day can go a little bit sour.
The key to this whole thing, and this is the part that we all forget, is that we really control what happens; we give these assholes the power to make our day a Great one or a shitty one! And when it turns into a Great one, everyone involved it happy. Take for instance today, I was driving down the road and listening to some 80’s rock on the Radio, and for anyone that knows me you would say what? You were listening to the Radio? Most of my friends laugh at me because I do not listen to the radio while I am driving my car. It is just a habit that I got into a few years ago, and I really don’t know why I stuck with doing it that way? But when I am by myself I am fine just driving for hours with no Radio playing? To me there is just something about the sound of a good engine that makes my day! It is just a relaxing sound that just calms me and allows me to just do what I am supposed to do.
So any ways, I am driving down the Road today and I was starting to pop into the next lane, but before I do switch, I saw a Policeman getting reading to com out of a Fast Food place and then I wonder like we all do….”Is he going to come after me? Will he run my plates and just hassle me for the hell of it, whatever excuses there guys can to pull you over there days. I have another sort of tirade and I will post it later, it is about how these police departments have turned it into a game when it comes into collecting cars they get when they impound your car, and how fast it can go into auction. So to shorten the Story a bit, I hear a honk of a horn and as I said I had my Radio on, so I shut it off, and looked at the cop, then in my rearview mirror and I was about to write it off when I hear someone yell” Hey, Hey you!” and I roll down my window and I say “Yea, what is up?” And the kid in the Passenger seat asks me “What kind of cars is that?” And I told him, and I will say with a little bit of joy in my voice and a smile on my face, (As it had taken me a life time to acquire that care.). He looked at me and gave me the Thumbs up and said, “All Right that is a very cool looking car!” “I said, Thank you and I will admit I had a smile on my face after I pulled away from the light.
It took me about a mile and obviously a few more minutes to catch up to what I was guessing was him and his Sister, and when I did it was my turn, I asked him to roll down his Window and I said, “I wanted to say Thank you, because I was having a bit of a bad day, and the one thing I never get tired of hearing about is when someone likes the way my car looks, or they compliment on it or what ever good thing they can or have said.”. I am a bit of a lucky person I am lucky enough to own more then one car. So sometimes I guess, that this puts me in a “Triple” position” to have people compliment my vehicles. Anyway or anytime someone takes a moment to say something nice about one of my cars, I always have to remind myself that I am indeed a very Grateful man.
As I drove on to my next appointment my mood was elevated indeed! We all forget that sometimes it is just the little thing that we can do for others that can help them if they are having a bit of a difficult day and sometimes, more often then not it can help us with our own little mood quite a bit as well, and this in turn may just continue through the day. And when we get home maybe it wouldn’t have been such a long tiring day, maybe it will just be just one of those days where you are a little bit tired, but you still have energy to play with the Dog, or maybe take your GF or Wife out who knows, but the point here is this, if you want to run around all day in a grumpy mood, it is very likely that you will end that day in that mood, and you will pass that Grumpy mood on to others that are near you, and sometimes it just takes a quick question to pass a long a good mood to someone who could really use it, and sometimes they may just need it for a few more minutes and that could make all the difference in the world to them? Anyways, that was just my thought for the day, and Thank you to the young man that took the time to ask me about my car and to compliment me on the car. If by some chance you are out there and reading this, My Lunch meeting went very well, and I hope your day went just as well!
Cheers!


